Churchill is aiming to reduce natural gas usage on site by 45% by 2030. This will be achieved by installing solar panels and heat pump technologies, and by the retrofitting of insulation and secondary glazing. The College has 20,000m2 of flat roof that is suitable for solar panels. The College is in the preliminary stages […]
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Churchill College is one of 24 Cambridge Colleges that is yet to divest from fossil fuel companies. Extinction Rebellion activists have been engaging in direct action against colleges that have not divested. In February, they dug up the front lawn of Trinity College. University buildings have also been repeatedly targeted by spray painters and activists […]
Dinky Doors are intended to raise a smile, pique the curiosity or trigger the imagination of those lucky enough to spot them. These miniature doors, dotted all around the city centre, are the creations of a team of Cambridge-based anonymous street artists. “We’re firm believers that little things can make big differences, and so our […]
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Cambridge’s hidden gems
Cycling around town, rushing to lectures and frustrated by ever-present tourists, it is easy to miss some of the most curious corners of Cambridge. Looking beyond the beautiful colleges, chapels and libraries, Cambridge has plenty to offer that students and locals alike may not have yet spotted… Hope Street Yard Hidden away just off Mill […]
A week normally filled with society fairs, games nights and nights out – or in Cambridge, library tours, pre reading and organising supervisions – Freshers’ Week in 2020 will not be as you know it. Freshers’ flu, rife each year, must now be avoided at all costs. Students are expected to maintain social distancing outside […]
The first time I was away from home overnight, I was nine. It was a four-day-long school trip to an outdoor centre in West Wales and I loved it. Being a fairly adventurous child obsessed with the outdoors, a few days of high ropes climbing, muddy assault courses and swimming in the sea was a […]
Wheelchair access to the Buttery has been improved by the construction of a wheelchair ramp to the bar and by the removal of the staged seating area, which were completed as part of the ongoing Buttery redevelopment project. Tom Boden, Head of Estates at Churchill, said that the Buttery redevelopment project was primarily motivated by […]
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Welcome to The Churchill Mallard
The Churchill Mallard is the new student-run newspaper of Churchill College. The paper is exclusively written, edited and produced by JCR and MCR members of the College. The paper was founded this summer, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, as a way to bring Churchill together. Founding editor Rebecca Heath said, “With online lectures, […]
The Churchill Mallard has produced a JCR and a MCR calendar for October 2020. These calendars list the dates of University-wide and College-wide events in October. The calendars can be downloaded using the links below.
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Being Welsh in Cambridge
I am one of only three Welsh students in my year. Considering there are 137 students in total and that Churchill’s outreach area is South Wales, I think it would be fair to say that there is a knot somewhere in the system. During term-time itself, I am not particularly aware of the fact that […]